wierd problem with screensaver after installing catalyst driver

hclarkjr · Sep 1, 2008, 06:29 PM

hi, i have a 3870X2 and am having some trouble with some screensavers. yes i know the video card is for games!!

i just bought the card a few weeks back and noticed that my favorite screensaver (3d pipes) will run but the image is all broken up and wierd looking. i just bought a new hard drive and installed windows vista on it. i checked to see if the screensaver worked with the default vista driver and it did. i then installed the latest catalyst 8.8 and the problem come back. what is causing this? i am running vista ultimate 64 bit with the 64 bit vista driver. it has done this for 8.7 and 8.8 catalyst. otherwise the video card works fine in games, it is just some screensavers. the vista screensavers work fine i should mention too. any help or tips would be apreciated. thank you

Sep 1, 2008, 06:29 PM	#1
hclarkjr DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	wierd problem with screensaver after installing catalyst driver hi, i have a 3870X2 and am having some trouble with some screensavers. yes i know the video card is for games!! i just bought the card a few weeks back and noticed that my favorite screensaver (3d pipes) will run but the image is all broken up and wierd looking. i just bought a new hard drive and installed windows vista on it. i checked to see if the screensaver worked with the default vista driver and it did. i then installed the latest catalyst 8.8 and the problem come back. what is causing this? i am running vista ultimate 64 bit with the 64 bit vista driver. it has done this for 8.7 and 8.8 catalyst. otherwise the video card works fine in games, it is just some screensavers. the vista screensavers work fine i should mention too. any help or tips would be apreciated. thank you __________________ Antec P180, Viewsonic VG2230wm widescreen, Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L REV. 2, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3 GHZ , 4 X 1GB G.Skill PC6400, Diamond Radeon 3870X2 ,Liteon SOHC-5236V COMBO drive, Samsung SH-S223F 22X DVD-RW,2 - Western Digital 500 GIG 16 MEG cache SATA 3.0 hard drive, OCZ GameXstream 700 Watt power supply running vista ultimate SP1 64 bit